Re: [e-users] fake expose?

[Wido <wi...@gm...>]

damn, it would have been a cool module. tnks for the answer

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:35 PM, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler
<ra...@ra...> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:33:42 -0200 Wido <wi...@gm...> babbled:
>
>> Hi folks. I was wonder, is there any "easy" way to do a fake expose
>> module for E17? i know it works in bang or things like that, but that
>> requieres openGL rendering and blah blah blah. I would like a fake
>> expose wich takes a "photo" of all opened (or visible) windows and
>> create a thumb of them (so, main diference is you dont see changes in
>> windows, just snapshots of them)
>> if it's possible and somebody is interested, i may give a hand (i'm
>> not a coder, sorry)
>
> it's not easy. if the pixels are not visible - you can't grab them. so windows
> on another desktop, or iconified, or that are hidden by a window on top will be
> garbage/inaccessible or contain the contents of another window. you could loop
> through all windows, move them to the top and "wait" some period of time for
> the app to draw, then grab, then move it back to where it was - but the effect
> would be ugly and you'd have to do it regularly to keep the content vaguely
> useful.
>
> so in the end - the answer is no. it's not easy, and the results will be always
> sub-par. just don't bother.
>
>
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Wido